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Baltic+ Salinity Dynamics

Equipo

Acrónimo

Baltic+ Salinity Dynamics

IP

Antonio Turiel (co-IP: Veronica Gonzalez-Gambau)

Resumen

This project aims to study the potential benefit of incorporating satellite-derived Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) measurements into oceanographic and environmental applications within the Baltic Sea. The consortium is formed by ARGANS Ltd (FR), the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI, Finland) and the Barcelona Expert Centre (BEC / ICM-CSIC, Spain) and will develop an innovative SSS product from the measurements obtained by the Earth Explorer SMOS. It incorporates advanced techniques for noise and bias correction to deal with the specific difficulties that the retrieval of salinity has in the region: land/sea contamination, sea/ice contamination, manmade radio-frequency interferences, and limitations in the current dielectric constant. Apart from the development of the regional salinity product, the other main objective is assessing their performance and impact in the various case studies. Specific attention will be drawn to investigate the added-value of this new product to address the scientific challenges associated to salinity, as identified by Baltic Earth community: salinity annual trends and budgets; insights of the coupling mechanisms involved in the interfaces atmosphere-ice-sea; climatological projections. The project benefits of the existence of a long time series of SMOS observations, which allows to explore longer time scales. The expected higher time and spatial coverage will be key factors in a region in which in situ observations of salinity are scarce or concentrated in the coastal areas. It is expected that the results of this activity will lead towards an increase in the presence of SSS data.

Actividades del proyecto

Fecha inicio

08/12/2018

Fecha finalización

31/03/2021

Organismo financiador

Agencia Espacial Europea

Cuantía

45,000€